Physicist Brian Greene will talk today with Leonard Lopate on WNYC about how the US can regain its leadership in science and technology. It’s an interesting time to be having this conversation — funding of basic physics research is much in the news lately.

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Superstring theorist and physicist and the co-founder of the World Science Festival, Brian Greene splits his visually rich, action-packed talk into three distinct sections, all in the name of convincing us of the existence of the multiverse, the possibility that way beyond the earth, the milky way, we’ll find that our universe is part of […]

The work of the theoretical physicist dangles just beyond easy comprehension: A world of multiple dimensions, vibrating strings and conceptual leaps, through which only an expert guide can lead you. Enter Lisa Randall, Harvard professor and pioneering string theorist, who’ll take us on a tour of the world’s extra dimensions at TED2006. Randall’s work centers […]